deleted stats directory, now get error 403

I use AWSTATS and I accidentally deleted the STATS directory of one of my sites, on the VPS. I did recreate it (/var/www/clients/client1/web3/web/stats). From FTP client I see some file to be there. But when I try to access them from the browser (www.example.com/stats) I get error 403 : You are not permited to access the requested url.